Patients often describe our work as feeling held—a space of presence, containment, and deeper listening. In that holding, what has been stuck begins to move, and what has been hidden starts to surface.
My roots are in the early analytic traditions that first explored the unconscious, carried forward through relational and developmental perspectives that focus on how healing happens between people. While my work is grounded in psychoanalytic understanding, it isn’t practiced in the traditional analytic frame of meeting several times a week. Instead, I draw from that lineage to create a contemporary space for reflection, where insight and relationship unfold together in real time.
knowing, opening, integrating
I hold close Winnicott’s sense of the holding environment: that when there is enough safety, responsiveness, and authenticity, the self begins to feel more alive. When the environment can bear our experience, what once felt split or defended can start to integrate, and growth naturally resumes.
Dreams often enter here too. As the work unfolds, patients begin to remember them, and together we listen for what they carry, because dreams offer a natural path into the unconscious. Analytic work, in this sense, is about creating space for what wants to be known—and once it comes forward, it can change how we live.